Originally from: frances fish
                        
Isn't the boot on the other foot ? Isn't it the Government warning vets ? If the RCVS will not put its own house in order, it will, apparently, have it done for them. For a vet to say that "The integrity and validity of a certificate signed by a Veterinary surgeon has to be regarded as fundamental " sounds very good but, in actual fact, is a travesty of what really is going on. The guilty are going unpunished , transgressers are still free to practice their trade. The value of a signature appended by a vet is in serious decline. Why would it be regarded as "fundamental" when we know they falsify blood tests and false certificates despite denial were most certainly signed during FMD ?Have they finally realised the danger their profession are in ? By collaborating with Defra to profess that no vet was guilty of any wrongdoing during the holocaust of 2001 in a futile attempt to stave off swinging change, they have surrendered their collective integrity. They cannot be trusted to regulate themselves, sympathy is in short supply in this particular household. If 2 members of the State Veterinary Service had not signed a paper stating falsely that my sheep had FMD,they could not have taken and slaughtered them. They have much to account for and much to atone for. Unless or until, they humble themselves to do so, their decline will continue. Frances